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When Wisconsin Democrats failed recently to block anti-union legislation supported by Gov. Scott Walker, one name kept coming up: the Bradley Foundation. The Republican governor's opponents wanted to know whether the Milwaukee group helped draft the bill or coached those who testified for it. Their suspicions were rooted in the fact that Michael Grebe, one of Walker's closest advisers, leads the powerful yet mostly inconspicuous voice for American conservatism. Diane Hendricks, a billionaire roofing-supply executive who is Walker's top individual donor, is on its board. Bradley and Grebe were central to Walker's rise to national prominence four years ago, when he rolled...

The University of Delaware has declined a congressional request for documents related to the external funding of one of its professors a known climate contrarian saying it was an intrusion into academic freedom. Rep. Raul Grijalva of Arizona,...

A nonprofit charitable group backed by conservative mega-donors David and Charles Koch has sued Atty. Gen. Kamala Harris for seeking the names and addresses of the group's donors.
The Americans for Prosperity Foundation filed a federal...